Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from August 24-September 8, 2020:

Campus Watch Research:

MESA Defends Canceling Supporters of Israel at USC (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61491/mesa-defends-canceling-israel-supporters

Campus Watch Blog:

MESA Defends Canceling Supporters of Israel at USC (highlights Myers’s essay): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61501/mesa-defends-canceling-supporters-of-israel-at-usc

Middle East Studies in the News

Indicted for rape, Tariq Ramadan creates a center teaching, among other things, feminism and ethics:

Time24 News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61455/indicted-for-rape-tariq-ramadan-creates

Morocco World News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61454/tariq-ramadan-new-chifa-research-center-to

The National: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61468/alleged-rapist-tariq-ramadan-to-launch-centre

Prof Rabab Abdulhadi moderates online panel hosted by SF State U. featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled:

Commentary: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61465/zooming-with-terror-incl-rabab-abdulhadi

Israellycool: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61467/san-francisco-state-university-hosting-online

Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61469/san-francisco-state-university-to-host-notorious

Jerusalem post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61495/sfsu-to-host-plfp-hijacker-leila-khaled-as-part

JWeekly: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61496/jewish-groups-condemn-plans-for-palestinian

Campus Reform: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61498/sfsu-invites-terrorist-hijacker-for-university

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61499/san-francisco-state-ethnicities-department-to

College Fix: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61497/san-francisco-state-university-to-host

Forward: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61494/san-francisco-state-university-president-stands

On Mizrahi Jews and the biased Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in California: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61453/mizrahi-jews-needed-to-balance-ethnic-studies

Court Rejects Islamist challenge to critical teaching about Islamic terrorism (incl. Nicholas Damask): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61449/court-win-for-professor-sued-by-muslim-student

On the upcoming confrontation between Tariq Ramadan and a Swiss plaintiff accusing him of rape: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61493/rape-charge-upcoming-confrontation-between-tariq

An interview with Brown U.'s Beshara Doumani, who was recently appointed as the inaugural Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61492/inheriting-the-impossible-incl-beshara-doumani

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